Archive for the ‘Software’ Category

Why I Use 10MinuteMail.com

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

Unfortunately, many websites that collect email addresses do so without your best wishes in mind. Case and point: I decided to help meetup.com this evening by clicking on one of their sponsored ads. Because of the way Google AdWords/AdSense works, the ad hoster may not get any revenue ...

Seven Things

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

Thanks to Paul Reinheimer for sneakily tagging me. I made it to the state tennis tournament 3 out of 4 years in high school. I read the entire DOS manual when I was 5. I've owned a house since I was 23. In 1993 and 1994 I saw every state in the U.S. and ...

Dominate Need for Speed (Undercover) and Still Lose

Monday, December 22nd, 2008

Dictionary.com defines dominate in the following ways: 1) to rule over; govern; control. 2) to tower above; overlook; overshadow As I was racing today, I owned one of the longer races by completing it in 5:17. The "time to beat" in order to gain domination status was 5:38. It seems to ...

Software RAID 1 Performance on Ubuntu Server 8.04

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

A generous gift was bestowed upon me last week -- Dell's PowerEdge SC420 server. It came with two (2) 80GB hard drives which I have since replaced with two (2) 1TB hard drives. I decided to mirror these drives for the sake of redundancy using Linux's built-in software ...

Install SSH Server on Ubuntu

Saturday, October 25th, 2008

It really couldn't be any easier than this: sudo apt-get install openssh-server You're done. Now you can use ssh to remotely connect to your Ubuntu box.No related posts.

LogMeIn: Control Your PC From Your PC

Saturday, October 18th, 2008

As I was piddling around on LogMeIn today, I noticed that the PC I was currently using was on the list of online computers. I tried to remote control it and received a warning message, but beneath it was a button that allowed me to control it anyway. This was ...

Dream Gaming Computer – 2008

Saturday, October 11th, 2008

Every year my desktop gets older, our mortgage gets smaller, the games get better, and I crave new hardware. The 1st step is to admit you're addicted, right? Without further adieu, I present you with my pick for the best gaming desktop of 2008. My picks were ...

DD-WRT’s Quality of Service Works Really Well

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

The advent of YouTube, Hulu, Netflix's watch instantly feature, torrents, and offsite/online backup has made good bandwidth crucial to an enjoyable experience. The first time my wife got me killed by hogging the bandwidth while I was playing World of Warcraft I immediately cranked up the DD-WRT control panel ...

World of Warcraft Subscription Successfully Cancelled

Monday, October 6th, 2008

I finally kicked my habit! Turdrangus Level 70: 17 days, 19 hours, 27 minutes, 32 seconds Total: 35 days, 23 hours, 48 minutes, 52 seconds Jorina Total: 4 days, 21 hours, 35 minutes, 38 seconds Total 40 days, 21 hours, 24 minutes, 30 seconds Start Date: August 2007 End Date: October ...

Google Chrome: The installer encountered error 4.

Sunday, September 28th, 2008

I decided to give Google Chrome another chance today, hoping there would be an update to fix the scrolling issue I previously discovered. The following steps produce the following error message—if you can call it that. Using Google Chrome, navigate to http://www.google.com/chrome/ Click "Download Google ...